The Gospel Through Fight Club

There was a point in my life when I was obsessed with Fight Club, but I could never figure out why. I mean it is a fairly awesome movie, albeit graphic. It echoed something, but I could never quite put my finger on it. It was only recently that I figured it out, as I would have conversations about God, theology and Him saving me that I kept quoting Fight Club. I could not find a better example for what I felt like when God saved me, but Fight Club had an awesome quote that described it. It would be relevant to let you know that I’m Calvinistic (*hiss* *spit* BOOO!) I know Calvinism isn’t popular, but this post isn’t about my theological standpoint. I knew God was saving me and I fought Him every step of the way, which brings me to my quote:

“I'll bring us through this. As always, I'll carry you – kicking and screaming – and in the end you'll thank me.”

 
It was only after my conversion that I started reading the Bible, I mean actually reading it. I came to Romans, oh how I love to read Romans, and I ran across this passage which totally cleared it up for me:
 

Romans 7:15-24
 
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
 
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

 
It explains how much my flesh wants to run and be back in sin, but how “he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion” (Phil 1:6) and that when I fight Him, He will still carry me through. That despite my blatant opposition He will still love me, because “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” (Rom 5:10)

‎"You had to give it to him. He had a plan and it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."

This speaks so much to how I feel about God's plan. Christianity is so counter-cultural, so backwards to what the world thinks and does that we can appear crazy sometimes. I may not understand it at the time, or what He is doing, but I know that it will be for His glory, and that gives me hope. 

So I will leave you with another Fight Club quote and ask yourself “What am I doing to be in community with God’s people and to show God’s love to others?” because:
 

"You decide your own level of involvement."